"alarmist pressure" forces pursuit of the Nuke option...

Washington Post: Nuclear power is on the verge of a renaissance in the United States. Though there hasn't been a new nuclear plant licensed and built in over 30 years, the nation's de facto ban on nuclear power expansion is coming to an end. The nuclear industry reports there are 17 companies and consortiums pursuing licenses to build more than 30 new nuclear reactors. Construction on the first of these could begin within a few years. If any of these plants actually gets built and the nuclear revival ...

Under "alarmist pressure" our great nation may compromise safer and cleaner alternatives in a rash decisions that were "dumb for decades" now being sold as "O.K. now in a time of eco-crisis".

We CAN produce "clean and near waste free" nuclear plants, but these are not the ones being proposed...

Old designs will still carry the same "dumb for decades" theme.

My hope is that the same regulators blocking permits for poorly designed coal planets are reviewing the proposed nuclear planets. Cleaner and safer designs are out there for both and development companies need to pay for prevention on the front end... not with our lives on the back end.